by Holly Richmond
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Bleeding hearts
An eco-friendly Valentine’s Day guide for the bitter and alone 2
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
If the only thing you’re more tired of than Valentine’s Day is all those tips for how to green your Valentine’s Day, take heart. You can hate on Hallmark and smug couples while still showing your mad hot love for the Earth. Here’s our guide to celebrating Singles Awareness Day in eco-style.
1. Get back in black. Wear your broken heart on your sleeve with the only appropriate color for this day. To rock the greenest dreary duds, buy secondhand. Better yet, loot… Read More
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Magic Schoolbus for the climate
New kids’ book teaches about climate science without being scary 0
Posted 10 months ago
Ms. Frizzle is nowhere in sight, but this kids’ book about climate science is doing just fine. How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch, has netted a slew of awards, including being deemed one of the best middle-grade science books of the year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The book, which features Braasch’s photography, encourages kids to observe their surroundings and participate in climate science research—without drenching them in doom. It offers… Read More
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Signs, wheeled and delivered
Sierra Club delivers ‘Coal is not the answer’ slogans to ACCCE 3
Posted 10 months ago Is clean coal as oxymoronic (and just plain moronic) as healthy cigarettes? Natalie of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network thinks so. She and others irked by the ubiquitous misinformation of the clean-coal lobby joined the Sierra Club to deliver more than 5,000 anti-coal slogans to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. The Sierra Club’s contest for catchy coal smack-downs resulted in the top 10 slogans, including “Coal: Party like it’s 1899!” and “Coal: It will take your breath away.” The slogans are being featured on a digital billboard-on-wheels, alongside pictures from the Tennessee coal ash spill.Watch the… Read More
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Sundance with me
The green films on show this year at Sundance 4
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago It's a reel good time in Park City, Utah: The 10-day Sundance Film Festival kicked off there on Jan. 14, and five of the 32 documentaries have environmental themes. An additional 50 eco-related films were submitted but didn't make the cut -- more greenish submissions than in the past two years combined, said a Sundance programmer. It's no wonder that budding eco-filmmakers clamor to get in, as An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car? got their starts at Sundance.Here's a rundown of this year's greenish offerings:
Photo:… Read MoreDial L for lame
Greenish phone from Motorola underwhelms 0
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
It's not as cool as talking into a tin can, but thanks to Motorola, soon you can talk into recycled water bottles. Or at least a phone partially made of them. The Moto W233 Renew, which was unveiled in Vegas last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, features a faint lime hue and the delicate, lingering scent of greenwashing. In case you'd like a side of token eco gestures with your heavy metals, Motorola invested in carbon offsets and printed the important
advertising messagesinstructions on 100 percent postconsumer recycled paper. The… Read MoreGreen is a four-letter word
Eco-buzzwords make annual banned words list 7
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago Hush your mouth, eco-child: That green buzzword you were about to utter is probably on Lake Superior State University's annual list of banned words. "Green" itself topped the list, with it or "going green" garnering the most nominations. True that. Please, no more press releases titled "Midwives/Fighter Jets/Port-o-Potties Go Green!""Carbon footprint" also made the 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. And as for "staycation," Dan Muldoon of Omaha, Nebraska, commented with his nomination, "Let's send this word on a slow boat to nowhere." Read More
It was inevitable 2
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Santa Goes Green. It's a kids book about a little boy who, instead of toys, wants Santa to spread awareness of global warming because the boy is friends with a polar bear. Two thoughts come to mind:
- A kid who doesn't want toys? Srsly?
- I bet the polar bear eats the boy before the end of the book.
On the first day of Gristmas, my true love gave to me ...
A roundup of savory holiday links from Grist 0
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago Read MoreThe unbearable maleness of green
NYT op-ed says mostly men will benefit from green jobs 8
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago Green jobs are great -- if you're a dude, says a recent New York Times op-ed by Linda Hirshman:It turns out that green jobs are almost entirely male ... especially in the alternative energy area. A broad study by the United States Conference of Mayors found that half the projected new jobs in any green area are in engineering, a field that is only 12 percent female, or in the heavily male professions of law and consulting; the rest are in such traditional male areas as manufacturing, agriculture, and forestry. And like companies that build roads, alternative energy… Read More
The unbearable maleness of green
NYT op-ed says mostly men will benefit from green jobs 8
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago Green jobs are great -- if you're a dude, says a recent New York Times op-ed by Linda Hirshman:It turns out that green jobs are almost entirely male ... especially in the alternative energy area. A broad study by the United States Conference of Mayors found that half the projected new jobs in any green area are in engineering, a field that is only 12 percent female, or in the heavily male professions of law and consulting; the rest are in such traditional male areas as manufacturing, agriculture, and forestry. And like companies that build roads, alternative energy… Read More
